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All right. So, uh, my name is Rupert. Unfortunately, Charlie can't join us this evening. Uh, we're members of the careers team at the, and we've been asked, um, to do a lecture this evening on, um, planning a career. So, um, I, so a little bit about me. So I'm an F two. I'm currently working at guys and Thomas. Um, I am currently working on community palliative palliative care. But my, my end goal at the moment is, um, surgery and probably orthopedics. Now to give me a better idea of, you know, who I'm speaking to in your different levels. You can just scan this QR code. Um, and it will take you through to, um, it'll take you through to our website just so I can see what sort of stage of training you are to help guide that you're going through. All right. So we got a couple of F ones. OK, we go on and, um, my next question to you is what do you want to get from this session if there's anything that I can cover, um, or at least try to, we'll get back to you with more information on all Right. So, if I've, I've not had anything pop up there, you can think of anything that you want me to answer. Um, drop me a message in the chat and I'll try and address it if not, let us crack on. Ok. So for those of you who responded, um, I'll aim this at mainly f ones then. Um, all right. So I don't know whether, um, you've decided on your career yet or not or have an indication of what you want to do going down the line. But I just thought with, you know, starting with the basics, just think about what placements have you you've enjoyed along along your career path. It might not necessarily be that you've, um, found the one that you specifically want, but to give you an idea of, you know, whether you want, uh, medicine or surgery or a community job. Um, and as part of this decision making process, you want to think about what's important to you. So you want to think about, do you want to do a lot of research? Um, do you want, um, do you prioritize a work life balance? Um, do you want to go into a specific type of medicine which, you know, opens up, um, for travel, et cetera? Um, and it's about thinking about, you know, quite on an individualized basis. What, what really sort of resonates within yourself. Um, something that friends have tried before is they've had a look at the B MA specialty Explorer. So it's, you know, it's, um, about a 15 minute quiz which you can put in, you know, your likes, dislikes, um, and experiences in and it can suggest to you, um, uh, some, some recommendations for, for some specialties you might want to explore. Um, and then, um, you, when you have a better idea of what you want, it's important to try and get some experience in it. So I appreciate we've got our majority of the F ones here at the moment. So I hope that you've managed to get your, at least one of your placements in something that you're interested in. Um, if you haven't, there was always the option of trying to swap with other people in your same foundation school or even at, in your same trust, um, to put a message out to see if anyone would like to swap a rotation. So, you know, for example, I have friends who would hate the idea of surgery and be happy to swap out of a surgical block. Um, if they could or, um, so, so it's always worth a shot that way if, if, if you don't have, um, the opportunity in your foundation years, um, then you can also start thinking about taste of weeks. Now, as an F one, you don't get any official study leave. So this will be something that either you can plead with your education and foundation program director or you can wait through F two where you can organize a taste a weeks. Now, in terms of organizing a taste a week, um the more connections you make the better um both within your trust. So making yourself known to um you know, the Renal Registrar or consultant who would be able to offer you a place um or making contacts with people at other foundation um or other trusts that might offer something that's quite specialized that isn't available at, at your trust. And you can do that through speaking to your educational supervisor. If you speak to your es they may have some connections or put you in or at least know who to email at another trust or within the same trust. Um So your taste a week, so will give you a little bit of a flavor of what goes on on a 9 to 5 job in the specialty that you or interested in. Now, for F ones you get self time. So depending on where you're working, you can either use two hours a week or you can save that up and use one day a month. So in my personal experience, clinical supervisors are happy with you saving it up and using one day a month. Um And you know, I find that's more beneficial, beneficial for me for actually getting stuff done. Um Be it working on portfolio or for example, one day I introduced myself to the orthopedic consultant and on my self development day, uh, shadowed him for, um, and, and got into some theater time with him and then if you're still struggling or you haven't had the experience or the experience that you wanted, you can always consider taking a break between or after the foundation years and that, you know, you can either locum in a specialty that you want to or you can take a junior, um, fellow job to give you a bit of an idea of the specialty that you might want to pursue. Um because uh you know, even at my, at my stage, F two, people don't have a, still don't know what they want to do long term. So they're taking F three, gives yourself a night a bit of time to think about it and also um prepare for any sort of training as well. So, um once you have decided on a specialty or think you might want to go down one specific path, you know, be it surgery or medicine or GP, um it's important to start thinking about the things that you can do to build along the way. So, um I'm going to touch on the things that you can be doing now as an F one to help build your portfolio uh to support your applications for a specialty training job. OK. So I have taken uh both, I've had a, I've, I've uploaded the core surgical training and also the um IMT training portfolios that will just go through to give you a bit of idea of what sort of things you can be starting to work on and uh to, to set yourself in good stead for a specialty application. So um this is a screenshot for from the uh surgical um the CST guidelines. So as part of your application for CST, you will have a portfolio proportion that counts towards your overall overall score, which is around 30% of your overall score. Um So everything in this is from zero to um zero points to around 10 points or such. So we'll start with audit and quality improvement. So I don't know if anyone's, you know, throughout med school, you're often asked to do some sort of project or dedicated project time at med school, if not even made to do a um inter in year where you can work on things like publications and such. Now as an F one, when you're spending lots of time on the ward, you can actually soon pick up um you know, gaps in the system where you think. Oh, that doesn't, you know why are we doing that? We could streamline that easily or um or such. So whilst you can, if you can try and push yourself to, to get an audit going as soon as possible, it's important that you get 22 cycles in it. So as part of the stipulations for the quality improvement in clinical audit. Um part of this, you need um to have a two cycle closed loop with uh having um shown a benefit or, or showing an outcome and to get yourself top points, having presented this at a national level. So, you know, top points is two cycles, national level, there's just below it. You've got two cycles um uh regional two cycles local and such. So, you know, anything that you do, uh make sure you close the loop, you can always work in pairs. One person was its first side, make a change, second person or it's the other, you do it together, you half the work you've got closed loop and send it off to a uh conference to try and get AAA national um presentation. Now, in terms of conferences out there, there's absolutely loads of them. Uh You can even get, you know, um international uh quality for patient health care which accepts anything. So anything to do with patient care, you can um send it to them and they'll, they'll look over it. It doesn't necessarily need to be um specialty specific in that, in that sense, you can always um word it such that it fits with a, a medical application or, or, or such. Um So your presentations and publications here. So again, um you want to, you know, if, if possible, the more audits you do or quips that you do, if you can get one of them published that's great. If you're really interested in research as well, that's, um, that's good. I'm not particularly interested in research myself. So, you know, the, um, work that I've done with, um, quips and audits, um, I try and, uh, if, if, you know, if they have a good outcome then you make, make sure that you try and, uh, publish it. If you've got, if you're do, if you're working with a consultant or registrar or as a group, uh they can, you know, help you push you in the right directions and you know, if they think it's suitable for publication, then go for it. Um Now, uh in, in terms of getting yourself out there for, for these presentations and publications, you need to um try and be a bit proactive as well. So I, I appreciate you've all just started a new job and you got a lot to take on. But if you can um introduce yourself to, you know, the specialty that you think you might be interested and say, look, I'm interested in this. A, you can make contact and say, oh, you know, I might like to get some experience with you tag along on a self development day. B if you've got any audits or quips or whatever, they're more, you know, more than happy for um juniors to act as dogs bodies and like do the groundwork, do the data trawling, write up the abstract and then as part of the team. Um, you can get your name on the paper as a second or whatever or if, if you do the majority of the work, first author and they'll, they'll be named. So, um, yeah, try and be proactive with it in that sense and, um, never let anything that you, you do or have done go to waste. So everything at med school that I did, I made sure. All right. Who can I send this off to? Ok. It's not good enough for publication. Which conference can I send it off to? Like, can I make a post out of this? Can I get an oral presentation which is, um which is top mark? So, um don't, don't, don't do anything for free, I guess, like make sure um you're getting something out of it and it's also about choosing a project that you think is going to go somewhere. So, you know, if it doesn't sound like you can actually close the loop and you don't think there's going to be a good benefit graciously decline and say, you know, it's not worth my time. Similarly, you know, if someone offers for you to do a project um and submit it to a journal, but the journal's not pubmed. Um uh it's not a bed sighted journal. Is it worth your time? Um You just need to think about those sorts of things. Uh Next up, we've got teaching experience. So, uh in terms of teaching experience. The breakdown is organization of a teaching series over three or more um three or more cases at um different levels and then also showing a commitment to teaching uh over um a six month period I believe or something like that. So as an F one, you know, you can get involved with med student teaching. Most trusts will have a, if, if you're a teaching hospital or involved with any med students will have connection with the undergraduate center and you can put yourself forward to help out with, you know, weekly AKI teaching or on, on the, on the ward teaching. So put yourself about for that. Um uh and you know, one of the things that I, I did during med school was, um, you know, or um all my friends had done, they got together as a group of friends as junior doctors and put together a um teaching series for med students at, you know, my old uni so that um if you get people attending for coming up to finals or such or um like a surgical series or medical series or whatever, whatever floats your boat, then you can prove that you've put on more than three sessions. You've done a, um you've done a teaching series and if you on, on the feedback forms, if you get them to put, you know, where they're attending from, if you can show that they're attending from a national area, then you've got yourself a national teaching series. Um And you've got yourself full marks. Um I've just mentioned about um feedback forms. Everything you do again with teaching experiences, you get feedback, make yourself a simple Google form that you can send off to med students on the ward if you do any teaching with them. Um Just say, please fill out this Google form for me and it shows, you know, you need to have evidence to, as it says here, evidence required as part of that, you need to show feedback uh from, from your teaching. So I'm just waiting for the slide to load, all right, training qualifications. So this is about um qualifications of teaching. Um It, I think maximum points is having a master's in teaching or um yeah, which is four points for a master's in teaching. Um You know, you have to think about whether you enjoy teaching or whether you think actually doing a master's and all that work is worth, you know, four points. You can do a PG cert, which is three points or two points for having some sort of formal teaching, pro pro uh qualification over more than four days. Um So it's, it's whatever way you think your, your time is better spent, whether you or you know, whether you think the extra two points uh is, is worth it or not. Um PG cert tends, you know, I, I know quite a few people who have done PG certs they tend to run over a year period and have, um, have, I think five or six different assignments throughout the year which aren't too pressured. Um, and he's, you know, a colleague of mine said it's quite interesting learning about, you know, different aspects. So if you can, if you can get, um, onto a PD, cert, it might be, uh, you know, a bit easier than doing something like a master's. Um, So, so this is specific for um the surgery. So for any budding surgeons out there, this is showing your commitment to specialty. So, operative experience, you need 40 operations to get on your log book as supervised or assisted or. Yeah. So as long as you're assisted and more either doing the operation or such, then it comes in the log book. So if you haven't already and you're a budding surgeon, get yourself an E log book, uh is free. Um And just start logging your cases and get you if you haven't got a surgical job or even if you do get yourself down to a self on a self development day. Um and, and start building these cases because, you know, I, I think I made mine in fourth year, fifth year, maybe added them infrequently uh included them this year. And I like I even had a gen search job, but because you're so busy, busy with service provision, you know, I think I got into theater maybe less than a handful of times. So I didn't get a huge amount of cases on the log book. So, you know, you might think that you've got a job teed up but, you know, as a junior you don't get a huge amount of exposure. So get one and everyone counts, um, attend attendance that said conferences, try and get to as many free ones as possible because often, you know, the conference costs a lot of money or if you're um you know, if you're pushing out all of these uh all of these audits that you're, you know, sending off the poster presentations or whatever, you know, you can still get the attendance from those and uh um you need three surgical conferences or something like that um surgical experience. So this is um you get full marks for having a surgical job for four months you get or, or doing a surgical elective. Um So yeah, if you didn't have an elective at med school or um or such, then I think you get two points for a taste a week or something similar for that. So, um that's just about how much experience you've had. So now we're moving on to the medical one. So medical one has, or the IMT training has a little bit more um points that you can sort of get for different things. So they've still incorporate the um postgraduate degree qualifications. So, you know, if you got a phd or um master's. Uh if you've done that as a previous degree or such, that's great. Unfortunately, integrated degrees don't help anymore. So I know the foundation school recently changed that for applications and it looks like uh specialties are as well. So a bit shafted in that regards. But um yeah, so then we look at additional achievements. So if you got an honors at med school well done, um if you have any international or have any international prizes under your belt, um that would be great as well. One thing you can do is look at like ss a competitions for an, for your specialty of choice, some of them, um just give you a certificate, others might even give you, you know, uh uh up to a, a grand in, er, in, in prize funds. So the, and often the more niche the better because there's less people who are um applying for them and writing the essays for them, um which puts you at a high chance of getting through. And uh yeah. All right. So leadership and management. So, you know, if you can get involved with lots of different things for the F one's out there, if you can get involved with, um, if you can get involved with either the, you know, the mess uh foundation program reps, uh B ma reps, um anything like that, then that will hopefully put you in good stead to at least get two points. Obviously, if you can get a national or regional level. That's great. Um So, you know, if you apply to be a B MA rep for London or, you know, B MA rep for or any sort of rep for a regional level. Um That's, um, that's good. All right. So, so there, I was trying to think of other things outside of this that you can do to boost your CV. Um So, you know, if you are thinking of doing an F three and applying for either AJ CF or um a locum job or anything like that, then um there's some other things that you can do to sort of bulk your CV. So, um II I notice this is a little um a little brief here, but future learn courses are online courses that you can do, which um classifies as like a four week course, but you can do it online in, you know, not too much time and it gives you a tasty certificate, but on your CV, you can do things like airway management courses and, and such. So have a look at that. Um Other things uh make sure that you or you can make contact with your uh education team at your trust and get an idea of what funding that you can get for courses. If you can get funding for courses in your F one, that's great. If not think about your, so in F two, you have a study budget. At my trust, for example, they will fund one specialty or one course that helps with career progression. So, for example, I did my basic basic surgical skills course a couple of weeks ago, I'll apply for funding for that. Um That will look good on the CV. If you can get on to an A TL SS course, uh like gold dust, trying to get a space on an A TLS course. That would also be great. Um, um, they may not offer it to F ones. But certainly if, if you, um, get, get one teed up for, uh, you have to, um, try and find a connection somewhere, someone who knows, um, or trains on an A TLS course. Then, um, you're putting yourself in good stead, um, at the CV bits. Um, yeah, nothing else coming off the top I have at the moment. All right. So I'm just gonna touch briefly on F three. I, I talked about it earlier but, um, you know, if you come to the end of you for a foundation program, you still know what you wanna do, taking a natural break afterwards can really help you a, um, explore other specialties. So you can apply for junior fellow jobs in, um, a specialty that you like. Uh, you might need to try and do some future learn courses to show that you're interested in that specialty. If it's, if it's a new, new one that hasn't really been reflected in new um foundation training, um and sew yourself, sew yourself to them. Uh It gives you time to build experience. So, you know, if you've done six months in anesthetics, for example, uh then you're gonna have a lot better idea before applying for a CCS training or you're also gonna have time to build up. You're also gonna have uh uh much more time to, you know, start working on that CV, try and get some grips in anesthesia or whatever. So I'm just using that for an example and it also gives you, you know, a break from training. So lots of specialties now are changing to allow uh trainees more time and it's less, you know, it's, it's not much of a, it's not as much of a taboo as it used to be maybe like 10 years ago where it was very much conveyor belt, moving, moving through. Um And I don't know if you've, if you've gone from med school to foundation to specialty that, that just seems like a lot of pressure and a lot of time on you. So it can help you sort of get off that conveyor belt, you know, come back and refreshed into a training post can have financial benefits as well because for you personally, because obviously locum rates are a lot higher than, than what you currently get from the NHS. And you know, it of it also gives you time to travel and work abroad if you want to. Um and you know, being able to work in a different healthcare setting will and see how different systems work. I know it sounds corny but can open your eyes to how things can be done effectively. All right. So as I said, this is, you know, I'm part of the careers team. We've done a whiz over um planning a career. We've got a youtube channel out there which this um QR code links to where we have a career series where you can explore, you know, we get different speakers from different specialties to give you a flavor of what it's like to work in that specialty and how to get into that specialty. Any hints and tips. So, if you want to, we've got um some recordings on there to have a look back through. Um We will be continuing to pump those out. If you um want to have us get on a speaker, then, you know, drop us a line and we can get a speaker in the specialty that you might want to explore. Um So that is the end of my talk. If you have any questions, please drop them in the chat and I will do my best to answer them. Ok. All righty. So, unless we have any questions, um I will um leave that. Ok. All right. Well, um, thank you, ladies and gentlemen for listening in. Um, have a wonderful evening. Oh, uh, and so a feedback form. Uh hopefully the feedback forms will be sent out to you. Um which will mean you can get a certificate for this. Um Let me, hm. Ok. Also as an in international medical graduate, I really lost on what I need for my portfolio for surgery. Can you explain? PT so? Ok. So um PG Cert, which is a postgraduate certification for in, in teaching. So, um I'll just write down um in the chat, what it, what it stands. So PG Cert. So it's not necessarily in surgery, but it's uh a postgraduate certification in teaching which will get you four points. Um Sorry, my pronunciation wasn't uh isn't great on that one. Um OK, so let me, let me just get you a um Google form as well. You hang on to ticks and then we'll finish the right now. OK. I can't find it. But anyway, so, uh yeah, thank you very much. Um uh have felt to apply for a surgical training job. Do you recommend doing the Mr CS exam during your foundation? Yes. OK. So, uh y I personally would, so as an um as a foundation doctor, it's generally a less stressful job. Um you know, than later down the line when you've got your um when you've got like a CST job, for example. So, yeah, MS CS. Yeah. So, um if you can get ahead of the game and get an Mr CS under your belt, it's good if you, if you find a job that's pretty chilled. So, you know, you, you're likely to have a com or you're gonna have a community job at some point that will hopefully be a little bit more chilled. Give you a bit more time to revise, uh, in terms of Mr CS, you wanna be giving yourself around, you know, 34 months worth of revision. I don't know how whatever works for you but that's, you know, um that's something to try and aim for. Um and you just want to be smashing past test or er M CS and just smashing the past papers to try and get through. Um And is it, no, so um they recently changed CST applications so that uh Mr CS doesn't count anymore. Um But obviously when you apply for your ST training, you will need to have both part A and part B under your belt. Uh No, so a master's is a step above a PG cert. Um So master's or, you know, mmb what whatever uh gets you four points for um four points for the teachings and PG cert will get you three points, I think. So, you know, less work and you basic, it's just one point, you know, where you prioritize, are there specific portfolio requirements for GP training? I don't actually know, I would assume each um each specialty has their own requirements for application. Um I, but I don't specifically know for GPS um I've just used so, so just have, have a Google, see, just Google, you know, GP training application guidelines or something and see what comes up. Um All right. Well, um unless we've got any questions, um I will leave it there. Thank you very much for coming. Um After the event, we will send out feedback forms to the email you signed up to. Once you filled out the feedback form to get a certificate, please, please please fill it out because um as I said, without that evidence, I can't show that I've actually done any teaching tonight um for my portfolio going forward. Um So thank you all for listening. Take care.